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Review of Performance and Discretionary Merit Increases. A. Effective July 1, 2009, a new structured salary schedule will be implemented. (See Appendix A, “DCAA Salary Schedule,” which is attached and incorporated into this MOU.) This salary schedule is established solely pursuant to this Memorandum of Understanding. Deputy City Attorneys at all grades fall under the City employee classification of “Deputy City Attorney” in the Unclassified Service. Management has the affirmative duty to provide the employees with written performance evaluations; however, failure to provide the required written performance evaluation shall not be the basis for the denial of step advancement for employees in the DCA I, II, III, or IV grades as outlined below. Nothing contained herein shall affect the City Attorney’s authority to hire a Deputy City Attorney at any salary.